A note on a direct wire about a wound to the head of Comrade Kirov. December 1, 1934

 A source: "Top secret": Lubyanka to Stalin on the situation in the country (1922-1934)

Archive: F. 3. Op. 1.D. 711.L. 14. Certified copy

December 1, 1934
Top secret

NKVD USSR t. Yagoda *

December 1 at 4 pm 30 minutes. in the Smolny building on the 3rd floor, 20 steps from Comrade Kirov's office, a shot was fired in the head of Comrade Kirov by unknown persons walking towards him, who, according to the documents, turned out to be Nikolayev Leonid Vasilyevich, a member of the CPSU (b) since 1924, born in 1904.

T. Kirov is in the office. With him there are professors-surgeons Dobrotvorsky, Fertakh, Janelidze and other doctors.

According to preliminary data, Comrade Kirov walked from his apartment (Krasnykh Zor Street) to Troitsky Bridge. Near Troitsky Bridge, I got into a car, accompanied by reconnaissance, and arrived at Smolny. Reconnaissance accompanied him up to the 3rd floor. On the 3rd floor, Comrade Kirov was accompanied to the scene of the incident by the operational commissar Borisov. Nikolaev, after wounded comrade Kirov, fired a second shot at himself, but missed. Nikolaev was identified by several employees of Smolny (Vas. Tikh, etc., instructor-referent of the Department of Executive Workers of the Regional Committee Vladimirov) as having previously worked in Smolny.

The wife of Nikolayev's killer by the name of Draule Milda, a member of the CPSU (b) since 1919, worked in the regional committee of the CPSU (b).

The arrested Nikolaev was sent to the Directorate of the NKVD of the LVO. An order was given to arrest Draule. Check in Smolny is underway.

18 hours 20 minutes.

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F. 3. Op. 1.D. 711. L. 14. Certified copy .

* On the document of the litter: "Sent to the Central Committee on December 1, 1934".